Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 July 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASVLUM, AN OLD BACHELOR'S REFLECTION ON MATRIMONY. Down to the vale of life I tend, When hoary age creeps flowly on, And with the burd'ning thought I fend That youth and all its joys are gone. iSucceflive years have roll'd away, In fancied views of future blils, Then were the fancies of a day, And all that's future dies in this Now with a retrofpective eye I look far back to early life, When Hymen promifed to fupply My higheft wiflies with a wife. I waited, hop'd and truQed fl ill That time would bring the expected day But never haply to my will, Did fortune throw it in my way. Too nice, too wife, too pround was I To wed as taught by nature's rule, The world was ftill to choofe for mc And I the condefcending fool, Hence are my dayi a barren round, Of trifling hopes and idle fears, For life true life is only found In focial joys and focial tears. Let moping monks and rambling rakes The jovs of wedded love deride, Th eir manners rife from grofs miftakes, Unbridled luQs or gloomy pride. Thy facred fweets connubial love, Flow from aflfecYions more rcfin'd, AfiVcTions facred to the Dove, Heroic, conltant, warm and kind. Hail holy flame ! hail facred tie ! That binds two gentle fouls in one, On equal wings their troubles fly, In equal ftreams their pleafures run. Their duties flill their pleafures bring, Hence joys in quick fucceflion come, A queen is (he, and he's a king, And their dominion is. their home. Hippy's the youth who finds a bride, In fprightiy days of health and eafe, Whofc temper to his own allied, No knowledge fecks but how to plcafe. A thoufand fweets their days attend, A thoufand comforts rile around, Here hufbtnd, parent, wife and friend, In every dcarcft fenfe is found. Yet think not mnn midft fcenes fo gay, That clouds and florins will never rife, A cloud may dim the biighteft day, And (lorms difluib the calmed-ikies. But ft. 11 th nr blifs fl j all Rand it3 ground, Nor Hull their comfcrts hence remove, Bitters are oft fubrious found, And lovers quarrels highten love. IVli-ht andfiudes and goods and ills, 1 mi, f.nrly blended in their fate, To Iwe.-t f..liflion bow their wills, Aral ruake them happy in their Hate.

A perfomer havin made his first appearance on the stage, as the Ghost in Hamlet, M

but little to the satisfaction of the audience, advanced to the front of the stage, and addressed them" Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to perceive that my exertions are displeasing to you ; I shall therefore, with your leave, give up the Ghost People are plundered now a days, even with all their eyes about them ; for an eh derly gentleman was robbed the other day of his spectacles from off his nose.

From the National Intelligencer. REFLECTIONS Arising out of the present condition of American politics and business, respectfully submitted to the general and several governments of the United States, Legislative and Executive. ( Continued from our last. J The manufactures of cider, beer ale and porter have ..occupied the American market, and ship more than we import. Apples, malt, hops and casks, are all drawn from a. - - the landed interest. The fame observations apply in a considerable degree to the city and country distillery, and rectifying of spirits. The invention and improvement of Alison is working a revolution in this business. The support of the prices of grain & fruit, but for the distilleries, breweries, and other manufactories, and the turning so many hands to the production of cotton, flax, hemp, wool & iron, would have been impossible. The importation of spirits (exclusively) in foreign ships surely ought not to be allowed, without an increased duty. Nor should the ships of one nation be allowed to bring the spirits, wines 8c molasses, materials for liquors from the dominions of other nations, to rival our breweries and distilleries, which make liquors of our own produce. At lead they should pay a higher duty. The manufacture of shins. a proud feather in the cap of Columbia, ought to be cherished. It is no petty local interest, but pervades the union. We should not encourage the manufacture of foreign ships, and discourage that of our own by allowing foreign ships to take from us the importation of goods from other foreign countries Holland should not bring British goods in her ships & Britain should not bring Dutch goods in her ships At lead there should be a higher duty on such foreign importations to encourage our ship building. This manufacture is a glory to the human mind, and no country has pursued it with more honor to her intellect than the U. S. It is respectfully conceived, that the national legislature ought to take up the consideration of all the ways and means by which-foreign nations encourage the building, owning and navigating vessels or in other words, the effectual encouragement of the manufacture of ships. It is universally agreed in America, that our country cannot profper without a flourishing agriculture. It is obvious that the commercial &c manufacturing citizens both contribute to this good state of agriculture. In the years 1784,

and 6, the whole value of the manufactures of tires of G. Britain is stated at four times the value of the exports. The maunfactures were by so much the more beneficial to the country than the merchants, who were protected by a navy, half of which cost directly and indirectly, far more than all the profits of foreign trade and navigation. Let us take a lesson in favor of manufactures from such great and undisputed historical truths. In the U. States the value of our manufactures, on an average of the last four years, exceeds the medium value of all the productions of our country, and of our fisheries.

which were exported in the fame V 7 - " 71 years. Manufactures then give as much benefit to the landed interestl and the fisheries, as foreign trade . . J affords them. Incredible as this may seem, it is a reflected opinion, often tested by cautious estimates. Many of our exported goods too, are of American manufacture.--We manufacture all our wool, flax hemp, metals & skins, and import of these raw materials very considerable quantities. We manufacture cotton so extensively, that the hemp, metals & skins, and import city and country stores in the states

which do not produce cotton, have that raw material for costant sale. It is in those states which do not produce cotton, that the manufactories of cotton are introduced and. extending. It is ascertained, that the cotton blanket can be be well and profitably made here, & the weight of blankets in daily use in this country can differ little from a full third of a good general crop of cotton in the U. States. The annual consumption of shirting for men, women and children in this country is worth ten millions of dollars. Much is, and more will be made of cotton. The (but southern homespun of cotton and flax, wool and cotton is great and various. The interior and western counties of Pennsylvania remit household linens, made as in Ireland, Scotland and Germany, to pay for imported goods in Philadelphia & Baltimore They can and will do the same clothes made of the Mississippi cotton and of the southern states--With such preparation, universally diffused, the immense redundance of the raw material will rapidly promote and very soon establish the cotton manufactory. The Greeks and Romans made statues, because the prefence of the raw materials, their fine marble, provoked them to it, so the universal spread of cotton wool in the U. States, will moslt assuredly and very soon provoke the people of this country into a wonderfully easy and fit cotton manufactory. It will keep down the prices of all foreign goods, and will enable us to avoid those which are too dear, by cotton substitutes. The old, the infirm women, and children, the poor negroes, slaves and Indians, will all supported and employed the better, for the manufacturing system, while the more of the hale & the firm will be left for the pursuits of agriculture and the ocean. Foreign trade carries us inceffantly into the field of rivalship, in.

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while manuracturc; being within our country, are exempted from fuch treatment and ronfcquenc.es. It is the wifh of the manufacturers, that the foreign trade, the coafling trade, and 'the lillieries may be treated with wifdom, juftice and liberality ; and it is hoped and believed that with fuch treatment they will flradily thrive, but it is reafonably expetted that tlic mercantile pody will feel towards the manufacturers the fame good difpufitions. Swiftness oj Birds and Beasts.

Henry IV, king of France, had ! CIla,,lll"ccl a lalconry at Contain- . bleu ; a hawk tfeaped from it, and in 24. hours afterwars was found at Malta. Thus, in the courfc of fo ' l . ,1.' I'M 1 . . fhort a time, this bird had traverfed a fpacc of 450 leagues, that is to lay 19 leagues in an ' hour. The fwifteflfifh fearcely fwimat the rate of 1 league an- hour. Naj 1 l ' 1 tun, ,.fl h.owver are in doubt up. ?" U,s P01"1' coniiueniig? the yearly paffage of herrings from the Fro zen to the Southern ocean. Thofe who are accuRomed to ! 1 lrtKt' "UW ie uaitic make voyages in the Baltic relate, lhoalsot herrings, which generally keep pace with the fhip, fomctimcn however, when the weather is very cold, and tlie weather favorable to their emigration, they will outftrip the moft rapid vefTel. It woidd take fifty three days for a tortoifc to run one league;' The race horfe is the fwiffeft of animals, they outflrip the wind in velocity. Ilamiltonian, the ling, jiih race horfe, cleared a fpacc of 4 miles in 8 minutes. After having fpoken of the fwiftnefs of animals, it would be curious to inquire into that of man. The Memerodrames will run a .whole diy without fatiguing themfelvcs. The American Indians will run do-vn tiic fwifteft animals. Buffon fays in his mifcellnnies, that he knew an Indian, who, notwithflanding the obfrructions of forefl and underwood (for his courfc lay through a wildernefs) ran over a fl) icd of or, miles in one day. Philomidr-s, the courier of Alexander the groat, ran in 9 hours n fpacc of H200 Jladii ; according to our computiition, h-jigurs. In 1T6T a Bohfinian, 'the nanv; of Focke, a eouri' r of the rlutchef-; ol Weimar, was tlie bean rof f me; important dhparches to Garlflnd. lie w ent in 'J 1 hours, and returned to Weimar in tix- lame time. The dillanee of thefe cities is z: Irag-ies Ifum ear other. 'Fhus Focke, ran over a laee of fcc;.ty lix leagues in Jigsks. tOR ALL AT THIS CHILE, TIT. HKAL rimccin.r;; ; V bom.:;; catholic;;. Carc'ul'v rcvicti cc EIjc :cJ Nolca rr. om Ti?n rn: e. s to; rni.vTFu to thk t; i. i;i "s Tliy. 1. : W - t.y T!!r ! .V I T .' I) STAT t. '

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